Thursday

Foursquare user ratings and popularity

I've made another map using Google Fusion Tables, this time to show restaurant data from location-based social networking site Foursquare.
It's interesting to compare data from Foursquare with that of Tripadvisor as both of the sites give user ratings/rankings. On Foursquare users rate the restaurant in question with a score out of 10, whereas on Tripadvisor users provide a score out of 5, and Tripadvisor uses this data to rank the restaurants in order of best to worst. Restaurants inevitably are attributed with different ratings from each site, perhaps giving an indication of how preferences and tastes differ between people that use Foursquare and people who use Tripadvisor.
In the map below I have included the Foursquare user rating for each restaurant, as well as the number of Foursquare visitors and the number of check-ins. I've also included the cuisine type for each restaurant.



Some restaurants, often the less visited ones, don't have user ratings on Foursquare so I left the section blank for them.


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